Clandestine Crystal Sets - Channel Isles WW2

[Yorkie]

I don't know where the nearest mainland UK BBC Broadcasting station would have been located during the war years, but the nearest large towns to Jersey would be Plymouth, which is about 120 miles from St Helier as the crow flies, and Southampton, which is about 160 miles - I'd have thought that distance would be well outside the range of a crystal set, even is there were BBC stations at either Plymouth or Southampton.  I think that it's fanciful romantic nonsense, which doesn't stand close examination,  for anyone to claim that a crystal set could have received news broadcasts from the BBC, and as I said in earlier posts,  I can't imagine why Channel Islanders, where - in the late 30s radio components to make small valve receivers would abound - would make life difficult by faffing round with homebrew crystal sets.

POWs using so called 'foxhole' receivers, yes, but even then, the claim is that such radios were used by GIs 'in Foxholes in Europe'. Really?  Surely GIs were well equipped with radios?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skKmwT0EccE

Oh well, let's not let the truth get in the way of a good story!